On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:45:12 -0700, Alexandra Carter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the encouragement! Actually, I feel this is a valuable
learning experience:
(1) Bring your own gear and be familiar with its use in the field
through practice, that way you'll always have a rig to plop yourself
down in front of and operate - yours.
(2) Bring salt and pepper for the burgers, and mayo too, sriracha
perhaps too, just to see if anyone tries it (super hot sauce found in
all vietnamese noodle shops)
(3) Be good at code - If I were more up to speed on code, I'd have felt
confident to just wait in the very short line to get on the CW station.
Problem is, while I've been putting in work on it and getting better, I
just wasn't "there" yet.
(4) Nice simple antennas work great, think long hunks of wire + tall
trees = happiness.
(5) Computers are NOT your friends!! I signed up to do the digital
station (psk31) because I can type better than most in the group and at
least it's one thing I can do. Computers crapped out both for logging
and I think when the one guy who set up the PSK31 station went home, the
station went with him, at sundown. At the SSB station, same story,
computer problems and unreliability. The GOTA station started humming
right along once their computer died and they started a proper paper
log. Learn to write well, quickly and cleanly, look up "directed script"
or whatever it's called that the old time CW ops used. It can be
transferred into a logging program that checks for dupes etc later, but
in the 24-hour time window of FD, computers only slow ya down.
Now, I actually don't have any Elecraft rigs right now. It's a long
story. if I build yet ANOTHER KX1 I'll prolly just get the stock one and
the internal tuner, and not mess with additional bands. I could always
add them later, but keep it really simple at first. And I'll probably
just use my own paddle - I have one of the little American Morse jobs
and it's neat. Also, a Vibroplex Code-Mite straight key which looks like
a toy but isn't, it's a very nice, sturdy, good-feeling little key.
Oh, and I have an IC-7000 I just got.
73 de Alex NS6Y.
On Jun 25, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Joseph Trombino Jr wrote:
Howdy Alex:
I gave up on participating in club Field Day efforts many years ago
precisely because of the points you raised.
But don't give up on Field Day altogether.....you are a QRP'er which
makes you a special breed....take your QRP gear out to the field and
have fun.
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